ASP - JScript Follow
I was wondering if it's somehow possible to use Idea for ASP files editing. I have a project written in ASP/JScript. I could probably just create another file type to get sytax highlighting. But since JScript is 95% same as JavaScript I was wondering if I could somehow get all same goodies that Idea already has for JavaScript?
So my question is - is it possible to somehow copy existing JavaScript file type and get Idea to recognise JScript blocks for <% %> and apply all the same rules as it does for JavaScript?
BTW it would be nice to have "copy file type" function.
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Hello victorstar,
v> I was wondering if it's somehow possible to use Idea for ASP files
v> editing. I have a project written in ASP/JScript. I could probably
v> just create another file type to get sytax highlighting. But since
v> JScript is 95% same as JavaScript I was wondering if I could somehow
v> get all same goodies that Idea already has for JavaScript?
v>
v> So my question is - is it possible to somehow copy existing
v> JavaScript file type and get Idea to recognise JScript blocks for <%
v> %> and apply all the same rules as it does for JavaScript?
No, it is not possible. Recognizing script blocks in a mixed-language file
is done by internal IDEA code, and must currently be implemented specifically
for each file type. And we don't currently have any plans to support ASP
in IDEA - it's not a Java techology, so it's far outside the scope of the
product.
v> BTW it would be nice to have "copy file type" function.
Why would you need that? Why not simply add more extensions to the file type
you already have?
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The last thing I want is for Idea developers work on ASP support :)
My point was that JavaScript support is already there. Idea already can work
with html pages with mixed-in JavaScript code. And if it somehow could
recognize JavaScript blocks other than (like ]]>) it
already would work great for me.
Anyhow it would be sweet to have user-managable mixed-language file support
in Idea (as opposite to the one done with Idea core)
>
type
Why? To copy and change some settings rather than add all keywords from the
scratch.
Thanks,
Victor